The West Plains Safety Alliance steering committee was founded by the Airway Heights Police Department in 2020 and remains the backbone organization for the work of the committee.
The West Plains Safety Alliance is a collaboration of community stakeholders who rallied together to address a multitude of disparities magnified by recent events. The West Plains Safety Alliance’s mission is to strengthen the West Plains through aligning goals, resources, investments, and energy to create safer and healthier communities. The steering committee agreed their mission can best be achieved through identifying prevention, intervention, and suppression strategies.
Membership has grown to include over 25 agencies from the West Plains. The West Plains refers to a geographical region located west of Spokane at an altitude 500 feet higher, which includes the cities of Airway Heights, Cheney, Medical Lake, and tribal lands of both the Spokane and Kalispel Tribe of Indians.